Patrick Harris

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About Patrick Harris

Patrick is a Director and Technical Architect with over 20 years experience in business, Information and Engineering Technology who has managed concurrent teams of varying skills. Patrick has a reputation for fairness and firmness among his team members, actively encouraging and assisting improvements in their skills and performance.Patrick is keenly commercially aware with polished communication ability, at ease with people at all levels of Engineering, Finance and Commerce. He has a rigorous understanding of business, technical principles and security concerns gained from experience of the financial, distribution, construction and telecommunications sectors, as a Programmer, Developer, Technical Architect, Consultant and Director. His management style focuses on quality, realistic budgets and programs, with a track record of on time on budget delivery, making hard decisions when needed to ensure successful project completion.

Patrick Harris's Current Company Details
PCR

Pcr

Information Technology and Services Professional
Patrick Harris Work Experience Details
  • Pcr
    Controller Ict
    Pcr
  • Pcr Llp
    Controller Ict
    Pcr Llp Feb 2009 - Feb 2015
    London, United Kingdom
    • Upgraded London computer room Wide Area Network to fibre, linked to new computer room in Newcastle• Replaced London server and firewall appliances with two physical servers, one in London, replica in Newcastle• Standardised desktop estate to Windows 7 professional and applications image• Virtualised application servers and remote access desktops• Moved London computer room from old office building to new office building• Upgraded telephony to VOIP• Conducted 6 complex and occasionally hostile IT forensic investigations and data recovery operations leading to:o recovery of mismanaged or misdirected fundso restructuring and recovery of two companies with no loss of employmento seamless transfers of contracts to replacement providers, maintaining sensitive business continuity
  • Tek Projects
    Technicl Director
    Tek Projects Apr 2003 - Jan 2009
    London, United Kingdom
    • Founding director and team leader delivering IT, technical and engineering designs and solutions• Part of management team that grew annual turnover from £0 to £5M• Negotiated and delivered contracts with values from £300K to over £3M• Jointly researched improved construction and control methods leading to 8% reduction in energy consumption• Consulted with care industry professionals developing increased opportunities and a higher profile for the firm
  • Advanced Computer Group
    Principal Consultant
    Advanced Computer Group May 2001 - Apr 2003
    London, United Kingdom
    • Led four teams delivering infrastructure solutions to clients• Negotiated and delivered support and installation contracts from £50K to £250K• Led testing and approval of emerging hardware and software
  • Exel
    Senior Technical Architect
    Exel Sep 1997 - Mar 2001
    Bedford
    • Key part of the IT management team that moved UK IT infrastructure time from 85% firefighting to 85% productivity• Team reduced annual IT overhead from £60M to £50M• Created the corporate IT security management department, its terms of operation and scope of authority, 80K users• Led infrastructure development and pilot project for warehouse barcode automation• Project Managed barcode infrastructure rollout to UK and major European warehouse• Led teams delivering infrastructure and application solutions to European business centres• Led team delivering infrastructure designs and solutions to the global EAI project. All were implemented• Led design of UK core infrastructure disaster tolerance model spread over two datacentres• Negotiated purchase of infrastructure hardware components
  • Maindec Computer Solutions
    Technical Architect
    Maindec Computer Solutions Dec 1996 - Oct 1997
    Various
    Led the technical development and implementation of various client infrastructure and application projects.o Developed network infrastructure at Exel Logistics JBA System 21 pilot project (OS/400, RPG, WIFI)o Led team analysing existing UK Netware 3.11 infrastructure in preparation for NDS upgradeo Development of global Motor Industry information update distribution system using ORACLE on VMS and Access on PCo Conversion of Novell 3.12 server farms to Novell 4.11 NDSo Nationwide rollout of 6,000 windows desktops, Novell servers and HP printerso Analysed and corrected various problems on VAX/VMS, Alpha/VMSo Reduced faults log from average 200 to average 20 in six months (various network infrastructure problems, faults, topology and configuration errors on MS, Cisco and Novell)
  • Mitel Telecom
    System Manager
    Mitel Telecom Jun 1996 - Dec 1996
    Port Skewett
    Lead a team responsible for the delivery and maintenance of Alpha/VMS cluster based services. o Designed and implemented the software to allow the cluster to page the duty programmer automatically (BASIC, VMS, DCL, OPCOM and ROSS)o Managed the application and networking services including (ORACLE, ROSS, SYBASE, EDI, TCP/IP, DECNET and PATHWORKS) and the addition of new nodes to the clustero Consulted on the interface of infrastructure FDDI with Mitel PBX products to enable desktop/telecom convergenceo Re-designed cluster SCSI, DSSI and DASD architecture to dramatically improve performanceo Implemented VAX windows
  • Paine Webber International
    System Manager
    Paine Webber International Oct 1994 - May 1996
    London, United Kingdom
    System Manager responsible for VAX/VMS based services. o Designed and implemented the VAX cluster needed to facilitate the merger of PaineWebber and Kidder Peabody trading and accounting systems.o Managed the operation and development of system software.o Managed connectivity (DECNET, PATHWORKS, NT, NOVELL, and NFS) to user workstations.o Managed development and operation of external connectivity (X.25, IBM 3780, and RS-232) for upward reporting of trade information.
  • Kidder Peabody
    Senior Analysy Programmer
    Kidder Peabody Jun 1994 - Oct 1994
    London, United Kingdom
    Tasked with integrating multiple VAX BTAS system instances. o Designed and implemented a hierarchical file read and write structure allowing the integration of the master files of numerous VAX BTAS application systems (VMS logical names, DCL and RMS)o Designed and implemented BTAS subsystem to allow same day corrections to trade records. This was built using FMS, VMS, COBOL and FORTRAN.o Designed and implemented various projects to improve application performance and resilience (COBOL, DCL, FREND and VMS)
  • The Autodrome
    System Manager
    The Autodrome May 1992 - May 1994
    London, United Kingdom
    Managed the design and maintenance of system and application infrastructure. Appointed and led consultants as and when required. While at the Autodrome learnt a lot about team management. Applying this and existing IT skills was able to move £6M in stock off the showroom floor to cash at bank with no change in showroom presence. Also drove a lot of very classy fast cars!o Designed and implemented deal analysis and prediction system (Paradox, MSQuery)o Designed and implemented bespoke database trading application (Paradox, BASIC, EXCEL)o Designed and implemented Network Infrastructure (NT, WFWG, Netware)o Designed and implemented email synchronisation for laptops (DOS, BASIC, MS-Mail)
  • Quoitent Plc
    Senior Analyst Programmer
    Quoitent Plc Aug 1990 - May 1992
    London, United Kingdom
    Responsible with six others for the day-to-day maintenance, user support and development of in-house and ‘bureau’ VAX BTAS and XTAS systems. o Managed the customisation and implementation of XTAS for new clientso Designed and supervised development of constrained trade ticket editoro Designed and developed enhancements to ‘baseline’ XTAS systemso Designed and developed performance enhancements to batch scheduler (SUPERBATCH)o Designed and implemented automatic Bloomberg/XTAS trade feed (IFC), with automatic record mappingo Part of ‘final call’ overnight support team involving problem analysis and rectification/’work around’ in very short timeframes
  • Investment Bank Of Ireland
    Senior Analyst Programmer
    Investment Bank Of Ireland Aug 1989 - Aug 1990
    Dublin
    Employed to redevelop the swaps system. o Revised, enhanced, tested and re-implemented bespoke Interest rates, currency swaps and future rate agreements system. (VAX, RDB, RMS, TDMS, ACMS and COBOL)o Designed and implemented secure key generation algorithm for fund transfer verificationo Made various significant performance enhancements to overall system performance
  • Quotient Plc
    Senior Analyst Programmer
    Quotient Plc Aug 1986 - Aug 1989
    London, United Kingdom
    Hired as a junior programmer to be part of the team maintaining and developing the ‘bureau’ systems. o Migrated PDP-11 BTAS to VAX BTASo Customised and implemented BTAS and XTAS for new clientso Automated XTAS/ BTAS price update system. The work I did here gave me the insight to later develop IFCo Revised and enhanced the compile and link environment to enable use of RTL (DLL)o Added auto tuning to Superbatcho Various enhancements to development source/object code control and history management (DEVREL) o Added distributed file system to XTAS / BTASo Developed X.25 / IBM 3780 (Async / HDLC) VAX (DMB32 / DMV11) communication linkso Member of overnight support teamo Daily fixes to application errors.

Patrick Harris Skills

Integration Infrastructure It Strategy Software Development It Service Management Project Management Enterprise Software Telecommunications Itil Outsourcing Contract Negotiation Leadership Testing Supply Management Team Leadership Sql Process Improvement Banking Cisco Technologies

Patrick Harris Education Details

  • Advanced Computer Group Training
    Advanced Computer Group Training
    Information Security
  • Ibm Training
    Ibm Training
    Mqseries Management
  • Cisco Training
    Cisco Training
    Cisco Router Configuration
  • Coláiste Phádraig, Lucan
    Coláiste Phádraig, Lucan
    English,Irish, French, Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Geography

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